MOSHE QUINN
Sites Unseen
My visual questions hover around space, distance, unknowing, and substance, usually in the context of mass collectivity – the City.
The city is people’s dreaming. The uncertain state of the present is spoken through shifting forms of silence. Silence can be visual. It’s amplified by what is seen. Photography is always a kind of silence. It is absence & presence both. It arises from the tension between these two poles. Through images I try to listen to blanks, gaps and nothings, to see what they have to say.
“Sites Unseen” will investigate topographical silences of the SOMA and Tenderloin districts. These areas are especially intriguing because they are in many ways overlooked. They are liminal spaces of the city, neither here nor there. And as with all public spaces, life and death pass through them continuously – a matrix of personal histories that remains unknowable.
Through a video installation with projections of light and suspended screens, I will attend to the blankness and banality of this topography that is both known and unknown to us. In emptying these sites out and giving them a good stare, I hope to see something of the human histories that always lie invisibly embedded.
R&B & Blues. Jeb Brady has played blues and roots music for thirty years. Jeb did his first recordings in New York at the historic Brill Building, and worked in New York appearing at the “Players Tavern” and “City Limits” in Greenwich Village. Later, Jeb became a regular at Mark Naftalin’s “Blue Monday Party” in Fairfax, playing with the blues greats Sonny Rhodes, Percy Mayfield and Buddy Ace. In The 1990’s Jeb teamed up with slide guitar ace Dale Miller and performed on KQED’s “West Coast Weekend”, Larry Kelbs “Sing Out" and Tom Mazzolini’s “Blues By The Bay”. Jeb has worked as a solo artist and fronted the “Jeb Brady Blues Band” playing venues including the Maritime Hall and the Starlight Room in San Francisco, The Westport Blues Festival and Berkeley’s Freight And Salvage.